4. Fran Kranz
One of Whedon’s new recruits in Dollhouse, Kranz went on to star in Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods, co-written by Goddard and Whedon, and gave a remarkable performance in Much Ado About Nothing.
The second season of Dollhouse, particularly, gave Kranz a chance to show off his impressive dramatic talents, given an arc to show the full range of his emotions, which he demonstrated once more in Whedon’s micro-budgeted Shakespeare adaptation.
Though I can’t say with any certainty, it’s not unlikely that a tech-savvy role will be called for in Whedon’s upcoming series, like Kranz had as Topher in Dollhouse, and seeing him return to that with an emotional arc to his character would be beyond awesome.
